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Australia defends Aborigines policy (Al Jazeera)

Australia has defended a controversial policy that allows for official intervention in remote aboriginal communities, which a UN expert says is discriminatory. James Anaya, a UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights, has criticised the policy, saying it violated international obligations on human rights by imposing...

28 August, 2009

Chiefs kill B.C. aboriginal rights law: Proposals did not go far enough to recognize rights, government told (The Globe and Mail)

The province's aboriginal leaders have killed the government's proposed Recognition and Reconciliation Act, a move that derails Premier Gordon Campbell's “new relationship” with first nations...

28 August, 2009

UN critical of Australian Aboriginal intervention (Reuters)

A senior United Nations official condemned on Thursday Australia's controversial intervention into remote Aboriginal communities, describing the measures as discriminatory and finding entrenched racism in Australia...

27 August, 2009